You Are Good
This song. On repeat. Every day for the past 3 weeks.
I can’t say what it is exactly about particular songs that move me.
I guess there’s an honesty and rawness in certain lyrics, with certain artists, that I relate to.
I sing songs from the stage every Sunday, but I’m just a girl who struggles and doubts as much as, if not more than, anyone else.
But I think it’s important even in those moments – especially in those moments – to sing songs like this one. To repeat to ourselves, over and over again, that “You are good.”
That you won’t ever let us down.
To let that be our mantra, our anthem.
Because I don’t think it matters if we’ve got it all together or not.
Or if we question on some days, or weeks, or even years, whether or not we’re going to be let down, whether or not we already feel like we’ve been let down, whether or not “You are good” applies to us.
I think what matters is our willingness to be vulnerable, raw, split wide open.
To be brutally honest.
To say I’m here, and I’m going to sing and dance and lift my hands and cry out from the caverns of my soul, from the chambers of my bruised and beat up heart,
“You are good. And you are never going to let me down.”
Sometimes we just have to forget everything around us,
Everything that holds us back,
Everything that would tell us that it’s safer to keep our guard up,
That it’s more socially acceptable to keep the mask on.
Sometimes we just have to let go,
If just for a single, solitary moment,
And scream hope.